Health & Science

The new facility will capture 60 million gallons a year of runoff from 20 commercial properties in Northeast Philadelphia.

Fentanyl, many times stronger than heroin, was responsible for a surge of drug overdose deaths in Philadelphia last year.

In Philadelphia, not having a safe, stable place to live prevents parents whose children have been placed in foster care from regaining custody 40 percent of the time.

Since the state established a lead abatement program in 2004, more than $50 million has been diverted from its fund toward other uses.

The FDA is increasingly green-lighting expensive drugs despite dangerous or little-known side effects and inconclusive evidence that they curb or cure disease

New Jersey beachgoers can swim comfortably as of early this week, a striking contrast to this time last year.

As Mona Hanna-Attisha began reviewing her patients' medical records, she noticed the percentage of children with elevated lead levels had increased after the water switch.

There's a shortage of primary care providers. University of Pennsylvania is testing a model, using Medicare funds, to train more nurse practitioners.

Eastern Pa., New Jersey and Delaware have seen a rise of about 2 degrees.

"They are asking a lot of questions," she says. "They are investigating one's life from head to toe."

Those who overdosed were at a much higher risk of death the following year from drug use-associated diseases, HIV, chronic respiratory diseases, viral hepatitis, and suicide.

Officials say supplies have fallen below the three-day inventory.